crt-pi shader users - reduce scaling artifacts with these configs in lr-mame2003, lr-fbalpha, lr-nestopia (and more to come)

Dochartaigh · 17 Nov 2016, 18:38

I'm going to try this tonight! Thank you!

I've done this manually twice recently! ...thankfully I only play around 100 MAME games total so there weren't too many vertical ones.

Rion · 19 Nov 2016, 11:22

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edmaul69 · 19 Nov 2016, 19:14

@dankcushions so i created a folder called MAME 2003 in /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro added all the files and it didnt work. then today i updated rpie setup script then updated mame 2003 from binary and still doesnt work. still only sees the crt-pi.glsl i have tried many roms. i am on a pi 3 with retropie 4.01 but i updated retroarch yesterday and mame 2003 today

edmaul69 · 19 Nov 2016, 19:21

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edmaul69 · 19 Nov 2016, 20:10

Since i have no special mame configs and since i couldnt get this to work so i just used bulk rename utility to add the .zip into the names.

Rion · 19 Nov 2016, 20:11

@edmaul69 strange.. I'm using RetroPie 4.1.
Have you tried the ones i posted?

edmaul69 · 19 Nov 2016, 20:29

@Rion i just put yours directly in my roms folder since you already had the .zip in the name. I dont know what the folder name was supposed to be where to put yours in the fba config folder.

Rion · 19 Nov 2016, 21:55

@edmaul69 The ones i posted are for mame not fba.

But if your looking for fba look here

edmaul69 · 19 Nov 2016, 22:15

@Rion i was talking about those fba ones. im sorry i didnt realise you had a mame set as well. do yours still go in a folder named MAME 2003? or do i keep them in the folder you get from the zip?

Rion · 20 Nov 2016, 10:38

@edmaul69 The ones i posted goes in to the rom folder not mame2003.

dankcushions · 20 Nov 2016, 14:15

@Rion said in crt-pi shader users - automatic usage of crt-pi-vertical in vertical games in lr-mame2003:

@dankcushions @Sharkus @Dochartaigh

Updated for RetroPie 4.1

mame2003-crt-pi-vertical-overrides-.zip.cfg

mame2003-crt-pi-curvature-vertical-overrides-.zip.cfg

Place these in you mame-libretro or arcade folder.

how are these 'updated' for 4.1? the mame gamelist hasn't changed.

also, whilst i appreciate your effort i think your alternative versions are confusing this thread and unnecessary. the ones i uploaded in my original post should work for anyone using retropie 4.1. your .zip.cfg overrides in the rom folder are a retropie hack made before retroarch supported per-game cfg overrides. there's no need for that approach any more, and maybe it won't always be supported.

i think we should use the properly supported retroarch way as it has advantages. for example, if you use a .zip.cfg rom override with config_save_on_exit = true in your main retroarch.cfg, your per-game shader override will migrate to your main retroarch.cfg. this doesn't happen with the supported approach.

dankcushions · 20 Nov 2016, 14:16

i see, the shader location has changed in 4.1. i will update my .cfgs.

still, unless someone can give me a good reason for keeping the .zip.cfg versions, i will be cleaning up this thread

Rion · 20 Nov 2016, 15:07

@dankcushions

Sorry about that i should have been more clear about the .zip.cfg files i posted. Do you want me to remove these and add the cfg files only or post both for people to choose?

I have also posted this

Mame2003 (0.78u6) Generic Arcade Bezel for every game with crt-pi-curvate (vertical & horizontal)

And this

crt-pi shader users - automatic usage of crt-pi-vertical in vertical games in lr-fbalpha 029739 (formerly lr-fba-next)

Same here with only .zip.cfg files. Do you want me to Change these to and only post the cfg files or both?

dankcushions · 20 Nov 2016, 15:41

@Rion thanks! yeah for me the cfg files only should be the ones we use. i don't see the reason for the .zip.cfg ones going forward. i will update my initial post once i've re-run my script with the new shader directory.

Rion · 20 Nov 2016, 16:18

@dankcushions Ok i will update my posts with the cfg files during the evening.

Floob · 20 Nov 2016, 20:44

@dankcushions said in crt-pi shader users - automatic usage of crt-pi-vertical in vertical games in lr-mame2003:

i see, the shader location has changed in 4.1. i will update my .cfgs.

still, unless someone can give me a good reason for keeping the .zip.cfg versions, i will be cleaning up this thread

Is there a chance someone not on a new enough version of RetroArch will get confused why the retroarch based location/overrides dont work?
Although I would hope as more and more people use the current version of RetroPie/RetroArch it shouldnt matter.

Rion · 22 Nov 2016, 14:05

@dankcushions Sorry about the delay. Here are the fixed ones for RetroPie 4.1 *.cfg Only

mame2003_Vertical_ crt-pi-vertical

mame2003_Vertical_crt-pi-curvature-vertical

These should go into the folder "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config/MAME 2003/" or and not the rom folder.

Please tell me if i misses anything?

dankcushions · 22 Nov 2016, 14:16

@Floob said in crt-pi shader users - automatic usage of crt-pi-vertical in vertical games in lr-mame2003:

@dankcushions said in crt-pi shader users - automatic usage of crt-pi-vertical in vertical games in lr-mame2003:

i see, the shader location has changed in 4.1. i will update my .cfgs.

still, unless someone can give me a good reason for keeping the .zip.cfg versions, i will be cleaning up this thread

Is there a chance someone not on a new enough version of RetroArch will get confused why the retroarch based location/overrides dont work?
Although I would hope as more and more people use the current version of RetroPie/RetroArch it shouldnt matter.

i thought about this but the vertical shader was only included in retropie from 4.0 ish, and RA overrides were late august, so hopefully it shouldn't be a problem for many. hopefully!

dankcushions · 22 Nov 2016, 14:18

@Rion said in crt-pi shader users - automatic usage of crt-pi-vertical in vertical games in lr-mame2003:

@dankcushions Sorry about the delay. Here are the fixed ones for RetroPie 4.1 *.cfg Only

mame2003_Vertical_ crt-pi-vertical

mame2003_Vertical_crt-pi-curvature-vertical

These should go into the folder "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config/MAME 2003/" or and not the rom folder.

Please tell me if i misses anything?

looks good to me, thanks! i can test later.

dankcushions · 12 Jan 2016, 17:25

sorry, got a bit sidetracked :) i have been working on a small improvement to my .cfgs.

previous with crt-pi-vertical.glslp:

now:

this is via my new resizing algorithm that always keeps the horizontal scaling at an integer scale, but still stretches the vertical to fullscreen. this makes things look a lot better when using vertical scanlines, especially when scrolling left to right. i think this sort of algorithm will be goof for horizontal games also, but i need to test.